Households

Thinking of going solar? Since 1978, Going Solar has been supplying solar power and solar hot water systems for households throughout Melbourne and Victoria. Here's what's different about us: we care about the long term. Our focus on quality design and components means that the systems we installed years ago are still going strong.

Solar Electricity Systems

Plenty of companies will sell you an off-the-shelf solar power system. You've probably seen pushy advertisements from businesses that sprung up in the wake of government solar rebate schemes.

The difference with Going Solar? For one thing, we've been at it for longer than most, with over 40 years' experience and many award-winning projects. We've found that investing in good quality components pays dividends over the long term.

Most importantly, with Going Solar you'll deal with an in-house engineer, not a salesperson whose only goal is to meet monthly targets. We know that for you, going solar isn't a spur of the moment decision; it's based on a genuine commitment to long-term sustainable living. So we'll work with you to design a solution that meets your needs, not just now but for many years to come.

We're experts in all kinds of solar power systems. Find out more about:

Replacing your broken hot water system

Often clients come to us wanting to replace their old or broken hot water systems. Going Solar will act quickly to ensure you have the best Solar Hot Water solution to suit your household's needs and provide energy savings straight away.

System Clean & Service

System Clean & Service work is carried out by a Clean Energy Council (CEC) accredited electrical contractor and includes cleaning the solar array with a deionised water pressure cleaner specially designed for glass, inverter data check, electrical cabling wiring check and circuit breaker/ isolator tests. A detailed report is provided to the system owner on completion. Prices start from:

$369 inc GST – single storeyup to 3kW then an additional $10 per panel thereafter. More info here.

quoteOur clients say...

We had wanted to do our bit to reduce CO2 emissions for some time but with the reduction in feed-in tariffs it had become uneconomic. As all our family is out during the day our energy consumption did not line up with the peak solar collection times of the day. We heard about a hybrid solar system via a contact and it warranted further investigation.

We approached Going Solar with our issues and they presented a very thorough proposal. We had a number of issues to address including:

A desire to use our corrugated iron roof on the garage rather than our old double storey fragile tile roof on the house.

Restricted northerly aspect roof space on the garage but more space facing westerly.

Our desire to store the power generated during the day to use during our peak evening period.

A preference for high quality Australian panels rather than cheaper Chinese panels.

Our desire to run the cabling underground rather than overhead complicated by a large paved area between our house and garage.

Going Solar worked through these issues and proposed a system utilising Australian made Tindo panels with micro-invertors on both northerly and westerly aspects of our garage roof. The use of the micro-invertors enabled us to have each panel working to its’ maximum level according to the amount of radiation falling on it rather than what the worst panel was collecting.

Within the garage is the battery storage and Seletronic My-Grid control system. The installers (Ross Shaw and his workers)completed a very neat and compact job in the garage and on the roof. Their underground cabling hides all evidence of the huge amount of work which went in to laying the cables. Ross and Going Solar provided valuable assistance in getting all the approvals, final signing off and paperwork completed.

There is still some final tweaking of the programming of our energy use/storage program but we have been thrilled to see how much energy we have captured and thus done our bit to reduce Australia’s greenhouse emissions.”